
          [note in pencil: [1847?]]


 Dear Doctor-- I am patiently waiting for
 answers to my several queries-- especially
 whether I am to put down C. Crawei [Carex crawei]
 or C. heterostachya [Carex heterostachya Torr. ("Your") now Carex careyana]. What is the date
 of your publication of the former in the 
 State Fl. [Flora]? If you think them distinct
 send me a working specimen of your
 C. heterostachya, & pray say what the
 species rests upon, for I frankly own
 I cannot see, from [Chester] Dewey's own Char's [characters]
 why it is not identical with his
 C. Crawei. I have seen specimens
 of C. Torreyi. [Carex torreyi] It is distinct from 
 C. pallescens [Carex pallescens], but probably not a
 native of N. [New] York. However, I insert
 it with the necessary caveat.


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 I hope you have managed Wilkes [Charles Wilkes] cleverly.
        